City Comment: Women account for only one director in eight of FTSE 100 companies, and if you had looked five years ago the ratio would have been the same... more
Any company that receives a takeover approach will be able to demand a shorter “put up or
shut up” deadline of 28 days under proposed new rules... more
The Government needs to pick up on the best practice exemplified by the Bank of England and adopt similar transparent and independent processes themselves
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Centrica chairman Roger Carr emerges as a leading contender to chair Marks & Spencer as speculation mounts that Sir Stuart Rose could step down... more
City Comment: These days the Bank of England’s Quarterly Inflation report has very little to do with inflation. It is the uncertainties which get in the way that preoccupy us all... more
There were some tired but happy heads in the City on Tuesday morning. They’d been up all night negotiating the sale of Cadbury to Kraft. They’d earned their fees. All £240 million of them... more
Todd Stitzer and his chairman Roger Carr can be forgiven their bloodshot eyes - it was 4am by the time the time they walked out of talks with Kraft... more
Cadbury comment: To hear the way chairman Roger Carr mouthed off against the Kraft takeover you could be forgiven for believing Cadbury would be sold to the Yanks only over his dead body... more
In the end, Roger Carr, the Cadbury chairman, had no choice. He may feel satisfied that he persuaded Kraft to raise its offer from 745p to today's 840p but deep down there has to be the realisation that the Americans have got the British chocolate-maker for a song... more
Cadbury takeover: Let no one say FTSE 100 chairmen don’t earn their money. For the last few months, Roger Carr has been working flat out, defending Cadbury against Kraft... more
No one can accuse Cadbury's top managment team of fence-sitting. The conference call this morning, where chairman Roger Carr and chief executive Todd Stitzer dismissed, again, the hostile bid from Kraft, was punchy to say the least... more
THE New Economics Foundation report on how bankers destroy wealth (A Bit Rich: Calculating the real value to society of different professions) has received much press coverage... more
How many truly brilliant people do you know? I mean brilliant, not just clever-clever. Extrapolating from that number - which is probably no higher than zero, and is certainly lower than three - how many truly brilliant people are there in the whole world?... more
Defenders of corporate Britain hopeful that Cadbury can fend off a £10.3 billion offer from Kraft Foods got a boost when the chocolate maker issued a feisty response to the takeover bid... more
According to a close friend of Roger Carr, “this is a great moment for him — he feels everything in his career has led to this. He’s not being arrogant or overconfident. He just feels he’s uniquely placed... more
Comedy lawsuit of the week comes from something called the Steward International Enhanced Index Fund, which is suing Cadbury’s top brass for daring not to embrace a (putative) bid from Kraft Foods ... more
Cadbury shares are moving upwards as market-makers bet that suitor Kraft will soon make an improved takeover offer for the 185-year-old business... more
Let's be clear about Kraft Foods: it is a global, rapacious and ruthless entity. It has zero interest in the well-being of Cadbury, certainly not its staff... more
Sir Philip Hampton of Sainsbury’s, Sir John Bond of Vodafone and Roger Carr of Centrica are just three of the high-profile chairmen gathering at an event in the City to put wannabe female board directors through their paces
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Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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